barbara kafka, cookbook author and writer, died this week. i was a big fan of her first microwave cookbook. there is still much disdain and ignorance about the ways that the microwave can be a useful tool and i remember her book being controversial when it came out.

Bruce was on the founding team of moderators and dreamers who created LTHforum.com an eon ago.

Over the last few years, I sensed his presence more on facebook than LTHforum. This afternoon I recalled not hearing from him for a while. I flipped over to his facebook page to learn he died in January.

One often used and cited trick I learned via Bruce: pour very hot water into an insulated container converting your 'cooler' to a hot box. Someone once grumbled Bruce was not the inventor, however he was my source on how to do this.

I read the obituary in the Sun Times, and he died from Lewy Body disease, which is a combination of dementia and parkinson's. When they did an autopsy on Robin Williams after he committed suicide, they found out he had it. Apparently Paul remarried only four years ago, and so I assume he had it then but was not diagnosed. I've taken care of three different men that had it, and in at least two of the cases, it took the family forever to get the right diagnosis.

Ralph Paige, a nationally prominent advocate for black farmers who fought to save their land and to win them financial compensation for what they contended were years of government discrimination, died on June 28 in Atlanta. He was 74.

Gold died of pancreatic cancer at St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles this evening, according to his wife, Times arts and entertainment editor Laurie Ochoa. He was diagnosed with the disease in early July.

Gold died of pancreatic cancer at St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles this evening, according to his wife, Times arts and entertainment editor Laurie Ochoa. He was diagnosed with the disease in early July.

at nytimes.com, Pete Wells wrote:Jonathan Gold, the restaurant critic whose curious, far-ranging, relentless explorations of his native Los Angeles helped his readers understand dozens of cuisines and helped the city understand itself, died on Saturday in a Los Angeles hospital. He was 57.

Unlike some critics, Mr. Gold never saw expensive, rarefied restaurants as the peak of the terrain he surveyed, although he reviewed his share of them. Shiki Beverly Hills, Noma and Alinea all took turns under his critical loupe. He was in his element, though, when he championed small, family-run establishments where publicists and wine lists were unheard-of and English was often a second language, if it was spoken at all.

“Before Tony Bourdain, before reality TV and ‘Parts Unknown’ and people really being into ethnic food in a serious way, it was Jonathan who got it, completely,” the writer and editor Ruth Reichl said. “He really got that food was a gateway into the people, and that food could really define a community. He was really writing about the people more than the food.”

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Gardening is a bloodsport --Meghan Kleeman

Why don't you take these profiteroles and put them up your shi'-ta-holes? --Jemaine & Bret

"I very rarely do anything more than three main flavors on any dish," he said. "And what's important in cooking, to me, is the taste. And I think that's the true job of a chef, to create this flavor profile, these flavors of each of the dishes, and I think that that takes a lot of technique and a lot of knowledge to do correctly."

James Villas, an author of numerous cookbooks and magazine articles who staunchly defended his homegrown Southern cooking and waged an uncivil war against voguish gustatory gimmickry, died on Aug. 17 at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 80.

at newyorker.com, Helen Rosner wrote:Kenny Shopsin, the chef-proprietor of Shopsin’s, the defiantly idiosyncratic general-store-cum-restaurant in the West Village and, later, the Lower East Side, was not the sort of person for whom death ever seemed a possibility. Cranky, nonconformist, uninhibited, seemingly driven by an internal engine of profane irascibility, he was a New York legend, part of the social architecture of the city, a wild-haired totem of a lower Manhattan that once was, before the degradation of Greenwich Village into a place of vacant luxury storefronts waiting to be reanimated by businesses able to pay five- or six-figure monthly rents. The news of Shopsin’s death, which spread like a rumor over Labor Day weekend, and was confirmed on Tuesday by his daughter Tamara, was like one of the legs being yanked off a chair. We’re still upright, but things are very wobbly.

Gold died of pancreatic cancer at St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles this evening, according to his wife, Times arts and entertainment editor Laurie Ochoa. He was diagnosed with the disease in early July.

In 2015, there was a documentary - City of Gold - that basically shadowed him for a few weeks. He was an interesting character.

what a wonderful store Russ and Daughters is... and as a child visiting NYC i loved seeing a business bragging about having the family's daughters running it! here's a link to the trailer for a doc. about these women, called "the sturgeon queens". it's available to buy or rent on amazon....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_CAavHPb2Q

Dorcas Reilly died on Oct. 15 of Alzheimer’s disease, said Ken Tomlinson of the Hinski-Tomlinson Funeral Home in Haddonfield, New Jersey.

Campbell Soup officials said the New Jersey resident was the driving force behind the popular dish, made with green beans and cream of mushroom soup and topped with crunchy fried onions. The company said it is the most popular recipe ever to come out of its corporate kitchen. The recipe’s website got 2.7 million visits during last year’s holidays, the company said....The original recipe card was donated to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002....Reilly was a Campbell Soup kitchen supervisor in 1955 when she combined the ingredients of the now-legendary green bean casserole for an Associated Press feature....In a 2005 AP interview marking the recipe’s 50th anniversary, Reilly said she didn’t remember having a hand in it because the dish was among hundreds that were created during her time at Campbell’s. She also helped create a tomato soup meatloaf, a tuna noodle casserole and Sloppy Joe-like “souperburgers.”

Just yesterday, I made tuna noodle casserole for lunch. I never had a souperburger, though it has now captured my interest.

Dorcas Reilly died on Oct. 15 of Alzheimer’s disease, said Ken Tomlinson of the Hinski-Tomlinson Funeral Home in Haddonfield, New Jersey.

Campbell Soup officials said the New Jersey resident was the driving force behind the popular dish, made with green beans and cream of mushroom soup and topped with crunchy fried onions. The company said it is the most popular recipe ever to come out of its corporate kitchen. The recipe’s website got 2.7 million visits during last year’s holidays, the company said....The original recipe card was donated to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002....Reilly was a Campbell Soup kitchen supervisor in 1955 when she combined the ingredients of the now-legendary green bean casserole for an Associated Press feature....In a 2005 AP interview marking the recipe’s 50th anniversary, Reilly said she didn’t remember having a hand in it because the dish was among hundreds that were created during her time at Campbell’s. She also helped create a tomato soup meatloaf, a tuna noodle casserole and Sloppy Joe-like “souperburgers.”

Just yesterday, I made tuna noodle casserole for lunch. I never had a souperburger, though it has now captured my interest.

Regards,Cathy2

I was intrigued by the name Dorcas and looked it up. It is the Greek translation of the Aramaic name Tabitha and means gazelle. There is a Dorcas/Tabitha mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. There is also a Dorcas, a shepherdess, in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. The name Dorcas peaked in popularity in the US around the same time that Dorcas Reilly was born.

This article from her alma mater Drexel University has a nice picture of her and more about her.